136 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



135. Agave xalapensis Roezl in Jacobi, Hamb. Gart. Zeit. 21: Gl. 1864. 

 Agave uncinata Jacobi, Hamb. Gart. Zeit. 21: 104. 1864. 



Veracruz above Cruz Verde, Las Vigas ; type cultivated in Europe, from 

 unrecorded locality. 



Leaves green or glaucous, 5 to 12 cm. wide, 25 to 75 cm. long, with dark firm 

 brown spine 3 to 5 mm. wide and 5 to 30 mm. long, and red or blackish strong 

 flat teeth 5 to 7 mm. apart and 5 mm. long ; spike often budding at tip. 



136. Ag'ave macrantha Tod. Hort. Panorm. 2: 11. 1879. 

 Region ?; type cultivated in Europe. 



Leaves spatulate-obovate, uncurved, glaucous, as much as 12 cm. wide and 

 30 to 50 cm. long, with chestnut spine 8 mm. wide and 20 to 30 mm. long, and 

 firm brown teeth 6 to 15 mm. apart and 2 to 3 mm. long; flowers large for 

 the group, about 80 -mm. long, the yellow or bronzed perianth segments nearly 

 15 mm. wide and twice as long as the tube. 



137. Agave pumila Baker. Amaryll. 172. 1888. 

 Region ?; type cultivated in Europe. 



Very small (scarcely 5 cm. in diameter), with few round fl^hy concave 

 leaves, these dark-lined on the back and with soft whitish spine, and teeth 

 somewhat connected by a similar margin. 



The smallest of all agaves. Sometimes cultivated under the name A. shyioni 

 or A. simonis. 



138. Agave lecheguilla Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 213. 1859. 

 Agave poselgeri Salm-Dyck, Bonplandia 7: 92. 1859. 



Agave multilineata Baker, Amaryll. 168. 1888. 



? Agave nissoni Baker, Gard. Chron. 1874: 529. 1874. 



Texas and Chihuahua to Tamaulipas and Zacatecas, in a variety of forms; 

 type locality, western Texas. 



Leaves falcately ascending, green or bluish, the upper face often with a paler 

 stripe and the back with narrow green lines. 2 to 3 cm. wide, 40 to 60 cm. long, 

 with brown or graying spine 4 mm. wide and 30 to 50 mm. long, and mostly 

 gently recurved triangular teeth 20 to 40 mm. apart and 3 to 7 mm. long, joined 

 by a nearly straight detachable horny border scarcely 1 mm. wide. With 

 flowers in short compact glomerules it is f. glomeruliflora Engelm. (A. 

 gJomeruliflora Berger, Hort. Mortol. 12. 1911). 



" Lechuguilla " ; much used for cordage, brushes, bagging, etc., and exported 

 as " ixtle." 



139. Agave funkiana Koch & Bouch6, Wochenschr. Ver. Beford. Gartenb. 3: 

 47. 1860. 



Nuevo Le6n and Tamaulipas; type cultivated in Europe, without recorded 

 locality. 



Leaves scarcely falcate, ascending, light green or gray-green, slightly glau- 

 cous, with pale ventral stripe and dark-lined back, 3 to 5 cm. wide, ,50 to 75 

 cm. long, with brov^Ti-tipped gray spine 3 mm. wide and 15 to 25 mm. long, 

 and mostly gently recurved triangular teeth 20 to 50 ram. apart and 5 mm. long, 

 joined by a nearly straight or slightly concave detachable border about 1 mm. 

 wide. 



" Ixtle de .Taumave " ; of better quality than the last preceding species. 



140. Agave lophantha Schiede, Linnaea 4: 581. 1829. 



Agave lieteracantha Zucc. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol. 16^: 075. 1833. 

 Veracruz ; type locality, Malpais de Naulingo. 



Leaves uniformly spreading, apple-green or dark blue-green, sometimes with 

 pale ventral stripe and dark dorsal lines, 3 to 5 cm. wide. 30 to 60 cm. long^ 



